I love making music on the go, but sadly Android isn't the best platform. It has latency issues so making live music is not really an option.
However there are plenty of good apps worth spending your money on if you want to produce some very good music away from the laptop.
Here are a few good ones in brief:
Caustic - Gives conventional DAWs a run for their money. Totally usable with tons of rack mounted synths and features. This is a fully fledged music making program - and from what I hear beats the mobile FL studio hands down. No regrets when I bought this.
Rd4 - I love this little gadget. It works well even on the phone. It's a remake of the famous Rebirth by Propellerhead. With clever use, you can program some nice sounding retro loops and then export them to use in other apps of programs. I just love the TB 303 bass synth.
Oscilab - This is a good one. A bit of the wall as a sequencer, and you have to fiddle a bit to make good music but it works really well and you can even use it on the fly with the live controllers. Latency is not an issue. Here you have a choice of 4 wave making synths, each with a further oscillator which you can alter independently. It also comes with two drum tracks. Just drag your finger until you come up with the desired results and tweak away with effects and filters. It's really good fun since you can tune each wave to a specific scale. You can make good music with this.
Lil Drum machine - A fantastic 808 style drum sequencer with tons of features. You can really go to town here making beats and then tweaking them to perfection.
J4T - This is a small but very functional multi-track recorder and editor. If you want to combine all the other things you have recorded this is a great tool. Each of these app exports to Wav, so just import them into this and you are set. A great tool.
However there are plenty of good apps worth spending your money on if you want to produce some very good music away from the laptop.
Here are a few good ones in brief:
Caustic - Gives conventional DAWs a run for their money. Totally usable with tons of rack mounted synths and features. This is a fully fledged music making program - and from what I hear beats the mobile FL studio hands down. No regrets when I bought this.
Rd4 - I love this little gadget. It works well even on the phone. It's a remake of the famous Rebirth by Propellerhead. With clever use, you can program some nice sounding retro loops and then export them to use in other apps of programs. I just love the TB 303 bass synth.
Oscilab - This is a good one. A bit of the wall as a sequencer, and you have to fiddle a bit to make good music but it works really well and you can even use it on the fly with the live controllers. Latency is not an issue. Here you have a choice of 4 wave making synths, each with a further oscillator which you can alter independently. It also comes with two drum tracks. Just drag your finger until you come up with the desired results and tweak away with effects and filters. It's really good fun since you can tune each wave to a specific scale. You can make good music with this.
Lil Drum machine - A fantastic 808 style drum sequencer with tons of features. You can really go to town here making beats and then tweaking them to perfection.
J4T - This is a small but very functional multi-track recorder and editor. If you want to combine all the other things you have recorded this is a great tool. Each of these app exports to Wav, so just import them into this and you are set. A great tool.
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